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Off on the Wrong Foot: the Art of Album Sequencing
A rollicking Popdose Roundtable that explains why you've been listening to Rumours in the wrong order, among other things
Read More »The Very Guest Of…Sting
If you've not been following every breath he takes, you're missing a lot of great guest appearances by the man they call Sting
Read More »Popdose Flashback ’91: Dire Straits, “On Every Street”
I knocked around the fringes of academia for years, but it’s just as well that I never became a teacher — because there’s nothing I find more irritating than a C+ paper from an
Read More »Popdose Roundtable: Penultimate Songs
We're such geeks that we even think about albums with great second-to-last songs
Read More »Soundtrack Saturday: “SpaceCamp”
In honor of the final Space Shuttle launch, Kelly the space nerd reminisces about the Shuttle program and revisits a film that is a sentimental favorite, 1986's SpaceCampRead More »
Friday Night Videos!: The Hits of 1985
If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not while the dreaded Snooki-beast is running around, trying to mount Eric Cartman.
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the ’80s, Part 14
It’s the last week for the letter D, as we take a look at more tracks that hit the Rock charts but failed to cross over to the Billboard Hot 100. Dire Straits “Expresso
Read More »50Prog50: The Best Prog Albums, Part One
We love to mock prog rock, but Dw. Dunphy has made a list of 50 prog albums that deserve to be in your collection. Here's the first installment
Read More »CD Review: Various Artists, “Live at Knebworth”
Live albums, more than any other, date themselves immediately, and not merely because the date is plastered all over the recording. Multiple artists on a roster are even more susceptible. If the choices of
Read More »Mix Six: “Then and Now”
In his latest Mix Six, Ted Asregadoo contrasts bands' debuts with songs from their most recent albums, including Weezer, Lone Justice, and New Order
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